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Offense: Stronger in 2026 Post-Portal?

Yesterday, Doug and Bill assessed whether each room was better or worse due to the portal. With the portal winding down, and in light of the initial panic, now is a good opportunity to take a clearer look and see if we took all that much damage, or if, dare I say it, we actually look even better...
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Offense: Stronger in 2026 Post-Portal?​

Bold denotes 2025 starters and others with significant playing time.
Red highlights are exits due to eligibility or early draft entrants.
Yellow highlights are transfer portal additions/losses.

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RugbyBuck said:
I'd say maybe equal at QB, better at RB and WR, probably a little worse at TE, but that could/should even out, and no worse off at OL. That's a LOT better than I thought we'd have a week or so ago.
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WR is interesting. For me you have to decide how much value you invent for unrealized potential (especially Mylan). It's such a new era that losing the next wave of stars is painful, but if you value that, you begin comparing the newcomers against a standard that the departing WRs never achieved.

If you compare what OSU had in 25 to what they could have in 26, it's a clear upgrade, because they didn't trust Graham and barely used Porter. That has no relevance to how much they lost, but rather how the unit changes from 25.

25 Smith < 26 Smith
25 Tate > Henry
25 Porter < Jones
25 Graham ??? Guiford
25 Rodgers = Bell ???
25 Inniss = 26 Iniss

Jones, Henry and one of Guilford/Bell do not have to rise to the level of Tate as a group.

They also have to perform better as a unit with Sayin, who should have a pretty significant jump that most QBs enjoy from year 1 to 2. By the end of the year, the OL + QB were bigger factors than the WR depth. Howard had 1/5th of Julian's passing potential, but was so much more comfortable in his role in the postseason, like you would expect given their age. We just got teased with a QB that seemed to be way beyond his years earlier in 2025 (and frankly still was, just not to the level that our selfishness would prefer)
 
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I’ll say it.

Offense will be much better.

QB is back, all starters on the OL are back (miss me with Tegra being missed), we get a more traditional TE room, RB is back, 2 of our top 3 WR are back. Then we add 1,000 yards in the portal at WR too.

I love the transfers we got. They’re elite underneath in the screen game and that compliments Smith and Henry very well.

The offense is the tip of the spear next year. They need to act like it.

If we don’t then this might not go as well as we hope.

The OC decision is paramount
 
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jwinslow said:
WR is interesting. For me you have to decide how much value you invent for unrealized potential (especially Mylan). It's such a new era that losing the next wave of stars is painful, but if you value that, you begin comparing the newcomers against a standard that the departing WRs never achieved.

If you compare what OSU had in 25 to what they could have in 26, it's a clear upgrade, because they didn't trust Graham and barely used Porter. That has no relevance to how much they lost, but rather how the unit changes from 25.

25 Smith < 26 Smith
25 Tate > Henry
25 Porter < Jones
25 Graham ??? Guiford
25 Rodgers = Bell ???
25 Inniss = 26 Iniss

Jones, Henry and one of Guilford/Bell do not have to rise to the level of Tate as a group.

They also have to perform better as a unit with Sayin, who should have a pretty significant jump that most QBs enjoy from year 1 to 2. By the end of the year, the OL + QB were bigger factors than the WR depth. Howard had 1/5th of Julian's passing potential, but was so much more comfortable in his role in the postseason, like you would expect given their age. We just got teased with a QB that seemed to be way beyond his years earlier in 2025 (and frankly still was, just not to the level that our selfishness would prefer)
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A lot of it is going to come down to play calling and how aggressive they want to be with Sayin. Sayin had training wheels on entire year, and for as good as Klare, Smith, and Tate were, they were all underutilized IMO…..Day opted to keep everything “safe” as can be and it minimized opportunity.

If we open up the offense even a little bit, we could see more production in terms of catches and yards from a receiver with nowhere near the overall skill of a Carnell Tate.

I’d love to see that happen because it means Day has opened the offense back up.
 
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billmac91 said:
A lot of it is going to come down to play calling and how aggressive they want to be with Sayin. Sayin had training wheels on entire year, and for as good as Klare, Smith, and Tate were, they were all underutilized IMO…..Day opted to keep everything “safe” as can be and it minimized opportunity.

If we open up the offense even a little bit, we could see more production in terms of catches and yards from a receiver with nowhere near the overall skill of a Carnell Tate.

I’d love to see that happen because it means Day has opened the offense back up.
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Training wheels cost us a NC imo. I liked the training wheels for the first 4 weeks. After that you needed to put more on him. He just looked so unprepared the last 2 games
 
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Experience and usage in the TE room are going to be the only area I think we are diminished from last year and that depends on if we stop using TE's the way we weirdly used them last year. If we are more conventional with them this year the experience wont be as big an issue because they'll get fewer passes and block better.

WR is going to end up a wash if Henry can get up to speed quickly. We wont take the top off like Tate did as well but as mentioned we'll be better in other areas possibly. Can they block is going to be th biggest issue.

RB will be better. Short yardage might be different and less effective early but I think Bo becomes a serious star.

OL is going to be much better and the fresman coming in Riley and Greer especially are animals. If we move Austin back to Guard we'll only have questions at one Tackle which most think Moore is going to be the man anyway. The depth is going to be the same really if not better. Just gel as a unit and get back to nastiness.

QB room better all the way around. We added experience and athleticism. And another year for TSC as a backup and Sayin to become what we hope he is. All good here.

Hey, if the Offense only has to get to the opponents 30 this year to put points on the board as well, we all win anyway.
 
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